The Hindi Literary Sphere (1920s–1940s) from the Micro-Perspective of Lucknow

Abstract

Chapter 1 investigates periodical publishing in the Hindi belt of the 1920s and sets a selected few influential periodicals of the time in relationship to publishing activities emerging out of Lucknow. It shows how the Hindi periodicals Mādhurī (1922–50) and Sudhā (1927–41) as well as the publishing house Gaṅgā Pustak Mālā (est. 1918/1919) along with its press and book depot, that is, Ganga Fine Art Press (est. 1927/1928) and Gaṅgā Granthāgār (c.1931), established Lucknow as the new centre for Hindi publishing in the 1920s and 1930s. This information is embedded into the production of literature by Gaṅgā Pustak Mālā’s combatants in the Hindi public sphere, that is, small and large printers, publishers, and distributors whose epitexts were advertised in Sudhā.